wtf are these things? More things seeded for Moff to work with in the next series?

The Nightmare Child sounds good - could this see the Doctor pitted against the horror that is Peaches Geldof?

Totally unconnected, but I was watching with subtitles and I totally read the line as horde of 'transvestites' at first.

Complete double-take moment.

The Nightmare child was mentioned in Journeys end last year. I think they are potential armies/warriors or in the case of the Nightmare Child a location in the timewar.

The Nightmare Child has been mentioned before, hasn't it? The Jaws of the Nightmare Child? I think it's where Davros was said to have "died" in the Time War (mentioned in The Stolen Earth)

The nightmare child has been mentioned before in The Stolen Earth.

It's science fiction, there's a lot of weird, made up names/things use them in the future if you so desire.

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't hear any of them mentioned again at all. Take the return of the Time Lords for example... if SM had wanted them in the next series, they would have stayed. I think he's got a shed load of his own ideas to work with.

'The Nightmare Child' was Russell 'T' Davies and the 'Hoard of Travesties' were his scripts.

However, as you say, it's Sci-Fi. no reason why SM can't bring them back again if he wants, one, two, or all of them. They've been introduced to the more recent dr who audience now, so it's seeded for future use, and I expect they will be, one day.

True.

hoard of travesties I just read as hoard of transvestites oops.

(5 characters)

So did I!. I thought RTD was returning for a moment

What? Is RTD a transvestite?!

Thought I was the only one!

Sounds like a back catalogue of prog rock concept albums.

The Doctor has already defeated Peaches and devised a similar punishment for her to that he imposed on Daughter of Mine in Family of Blood. Instead of putting her in every mirror, though, he's put her in every tabloid newspaper

I loved the names given to these horrors of the Time War. They convey a vivid idea of just what hell that War had become.

I was wondering if the nightmare child might be the little girl who appeared in Torchwood. The one Captain Jack went to see to find out the location of the 2nd bring back to life glove thingy.

Like the Medusa Cascade and the Shadow Proclamation before them, they're just phrases that RTD conjured up because they sounded nice. Had his tenure continued he would have probably developed them at some point (like the Shadow Proclamation), but now it's doubtful we'll ever see an onscreen realisation.

The Skaro Degradations
The Horde of Travesties
The Nightmare Child
The Could-Have-Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Never Weres would all be very cool to see developed in the new series.

Naw, it's an episode where the Doctor meets his old companion Mel

I'm pretty sure the Nightmare Child is what Rose gave birth to nine months after Journey's End

The return of Adric?

If you're signed up on Gallifrey Base , there's a very funny thread where fans came up with their own silly names for Time War Baddies.
Some of my favourites were ,

The Nostril Hair Plucker and his army of Poggostick-dancing earwigs (by a poster called Cyber Beagle)
The Bellowing Lummox of the Hyper-Space Rash (by a poster called Kass)
The Nine Billionth Spleen Brigade of The Mighty Stinkfist (Kass again)

A couple I came up with for that thread were

The Never Returning McGann
The Colossal Overbite Of Piper

cant argue with that!